Mimi Whitefield

#Cuba and international business correspondent, former Miami Herald. #Brazil, #Latam and Caribbean news. Tweets in English, Spanish and Portuguese

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

[Nora Gámez Torres @ngameztorres]

Florida shipping companies settle lawsuits for use of Port of Mariel in #Cuba
https://t.co/YkPwJUldOK

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Amid Haiti’s latest gang war, a community hospital fights to stay alive https://t.co/XLW1aPcwi6

[Nora Gámez Torres @ngameztorres]

In visit to Havana, State Department warned #Cuba it ‘has a small window to make a deal’. Cuban diplomat denies Trump admin officials gave them a deadline.
https://t.co/80j1fg2FH0

[Cancillería de Cuba @CubaMINREX]

📌 Intervención del primer secretario del Partido Comunista de Cuba y presidente de la República, @DiazCanelB sobre el estado actual de las relaciones con el gobierno de los Estados Unidos.

[Cubadebate @cubadebatecu]

🇨🇺📺 Presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel en comparecencia televisiva especial, ante medios de comunicación:

🇨🇺🇲🇽⁠Estamos recibiendo donaciones, sobre todo de un país amigo y hermano que es México.
🇲🇽 ⁠Agradecemos y respetamos a su presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum•⁠ ⁠

[Ricardo Herrero @ric23]

“Catastrophe in Cuba is not a foregone conclusion. It also presents an opportunity — a chance for broader international engagement that could head off impending disaster.” - @ChrisSabatini & @KatrinHansing https://t.co/g0UN082kwm

[Presidencia Cuba 🇨🇺 @PresidenciaCuba]

🇨🇺| En el espíritu de buena voluntad, de estrechas y fluidas relaciones entre el Estado cubano y el Vaticano, el Gobierno de #Cuba ha decidido liberar en los próximos días a 51 personas sancionadas a privación de libertad.

📎| https://t.co/rGeQNGorqM

[Mag Jorge Castro🇨🇺 @MagJorgeCastro]

En plena epidemia de chikunguña en #Cuba el régimen oculta la cifra de fallecidos.

El último reporte aseguraba que 95 personas se encontraban en terapia intensiva, de ellos 63 niños reportados de graves.

Familias enteras enfermas y el castrismo ciego, sordo y mudo.
📷AFP

[teleSUR TV @teleSURtv]

El presidente de #Cuba, Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel, afirmó que está llegando ayuda solidaria de organizaciones internacionales.

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. (via @AP)

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, many in South Florida, lose TPS after today https://t.co/a3CdpcNTzI

[Pedro Monreal @pmmonreal]

En la caída de 4% del USD contra el CUP en 3 días en el mercado informal pudieron influir varios factores. Una hipótesis de trabajo es que la expectativa de un aumento de remesas que es típico en países del Caribe después de desastres naturales reforzaría la bajada del USD

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

At least 30 dead in Haiti from Hurricane Melissa https://t.co/ECgbhMdd22

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Hurricane Melissa aftermath: Jamaica assesses economic losses https://t.co/5ZnF8e0ppr

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Venezuela claims capture of CIA group, accuses U.S. of plotting ‘false flag’ attack https://t.co/5dUSsZkopa

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

Miami-area nonprofits reeling from government cuts when need is at record levels https://t.co/7rRqCQRTXs

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

Hurricane Melissa kills 20 in Haiti after river floods | Miami Herald https://t.co/K3pMlPmcVp

[Nora Gámez Torres @ngameztorres]

Eighteen U.S. allies abstained or rejected Cuba’s UN resolution against the #embargo following a diplomatic push by the Trump administration. Many cited #Cuba's support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. A deep dive on the vote. https://t.co/DgP4dDh8ux